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Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams

By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

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FIRST VOLUME DRAMATIC SCENES.

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SECOND VOLUME POEMS AND EPIGRAMS.

FROM THE PHOCÆANS.

POEMS AND EPIGRAMS CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF 1846.

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POEMS FROM PERICLES AND ASPASIA AND OTHER PROSE WORKS.

PERICLES TO ASPASIA.

SOCRATES TO ASPASIA.

ASPASIA TO SOCRATES.

CORINNA TO TANAGRA.

FROM MIMNERMUS.

HEGEMON TO PRAXINOE.

THE DEATH OF ARTEMIDORA.

ALETHEIA TO PHRAORTES.

CUPID TEARING A ROSE-BUD.

A FAUN TO ERIOPIS.

CLEONE TO ASPASIA.

THE IAMBICS OF HEPHÆSTION.

ODE TO MILETUS.

ERINNA TO LOVE.

SAPPHO TO HESPERUS.

TO MY CHILD CARLINO.

INVOCATION TO SLEEP.

FROM THE LAST FRUIT OFF AN OLD TREE.

FROM DRY STICKS.

HEROIC IDYLS, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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CX. ON RECEIVING A PORTRAIT.

To gaze on you when life's last gleams decline,
And hold your hand, to the last clasp, in mine . .

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Of these two wishes, these my only two,
One has been granted, gentle maid, by you:
Were thus the other certain, I should go,
And leave but one man happier here below.